Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Jr. out of danger and fit for Dr. Tobey to operate on his infected right antrum (in the cheek) and ethmoid sinuses (in the brow). Simultaneously, Dr. Tobey let it be known that his notable young patient had been pulled through his crisis by a notable new drug...
...drug which cured young Roosevelt seems to be a specific cure for all streptococcic infections-septic sore throat, childbed fever, postabortal septicemia. It has helped to cure cases of peritonitis due to ruptured appendix, perforated stomach ulcer or gallbladder. It has been effective in postoperative wounds, endocarditis, suppurative mastoiditis, and tonsillitis. Some cases of erysipelas (also a streptococcic infection) have yielded to Prontosilmedication. The drug also has ameliorated severe cases of carbuncles and cellulitis due to staphylococcus, a different kind of germ...
Credited with the invention of this drug, which some responsible doctors last week were calling the medical discovery of the decade, were Professors Heinrich Horlein and Gerhard Domagk of the German Dye Trust. Dr. Horlein, director of the Trust's pharmaceutical research at Elberfeld, and Dr. Domagk, a chemotherapist, designed Prontosil's complex molecule of dyestuff. After Dye Trust synthetists made it. Dr. Domagk experimented on mice, found that it did not kill them, that it did cure them of streptococcic infections. Other German doctors tried the material on human beings, began to report success in 1935. Last...
...Dorsey "cure" is simple. The smoker must cease abruptly and completely. Whenever he wants to smoke, he swallows a capsule containing one-eighth grain of lobeline. This is a drug which smells, tastes and affects the human system almost exactly as nicotine does. Nicotine comes from the leaves of any tobacco plant (Nicotiana), lobeline from the blue flower of the Indian tobacco plant (Lobelia inflata), a common U. S. weed which Indians used to smoke with true tobacco leaves. Lobeline, however, is not habit-forming as is nicotine. Dr. Dorsey has never found it necessary for a patient to take...
Thirteen years ago a Manhattan drug manufacturer named William Van Duzer Lawrence went to Vassar's President Henry Noble MacCracken for advice. Rich and generous Mr. Lawrence wanted to found a college for women but was not sure how to go about it. He was prepared to give the college his big gabled house Westlands in suburban Bronxville, N. Y., twelve acres of land, the sum of $1,250,000 and his wife's name, Sarah Bates Lawrence. Would Vassar take the fledgling college under her wing? Magnanimous Dr. MacCracken promised that Vassar would...